1:41:02
...I can do that on my own.
1:41:14
I wiII die.
1:41:15
No.
1:41:16
You are dead.
1:41:18
And you want me to quicken you
once more.
1:41:23
And as much as your invitation
might appeaI to me...
1:41:27
...I must regretfuIIy...
1:41:29
...decIine.
1:41:43
"For" y"ears I wandered:"
1:41:45
"Ital"y", Greece..."
1:41:47
...all the ancient lands.
1:41:50
But the world was a tomb to me...
1:41:52
"...a grave"y"ard full of broken statues."
1:41:55
And each of those statues
resembled her face.
1:42:04
"Then, out of curiosit"y...
1:42:06
...boredom, who knows what...
1:42:08
...I left the Old World...
1:42:10
"...and came back to m"y "America."
1:42:15
And there a mechanical wonder
allowed me to see the sunrise...
1:42:19
...for the first time...
1:42:21
"...in 200" y"ears."
1:42:24
And what sunrises!
1:42:27
"Seen as the human e"y"e"
could never see them.
1:42:30
Silver at first...
1:42:33
"...then, as the" y"ears progressed,"
in tones of purple...
1:42:36
...red...
1:42:37
"...and m"y "long"-"lost blue."
1:42:44
In the spring of 1988,
I returned to New Orleans.
1:42:48
And as soon as I smelled the air,
I knew I was home.
1:42:52
It was rich...
1:42:54
...almost sweet...
1:42:56
...like the fragrance of jasmine
"and roses around our old court"y"ard."